Iván Darío Vargas-Roncancio is an assistant professor in the Law and Society program, Department of Social Sciences at York University.  He holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resource Sciences from McGill University (2021), a J.D (2008) and an LL.M in Law and Bioscience (2011) from the National University of Colombia. He acted as Associate Director for the Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives (CICADA) and held a post-doctoral position with the Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E) program at McGill (2021 – 2023). Iván worked for the Everyday Peace Indicators Project as an institutional ethnographer at George Mason University (2017-18) and was a “Francisco José de Caldas” scholar (COLCIENCIAS, 2013-2016). He is the co-PI for the intercultural research project: “A Community Path to Higher Education: The Biocultural Indigenous University of the Inga People of Colombia” (Spencer Foundation, Research-Practice Partnership Grant Program, 2022-2025).  His research focuses on Earth law and the rights of nature; Indigenous legal cosmologies in Amazonia; anthropology of plant-human relations, and critical pedagogies. He has published in the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment,  the Australian Feminist Law Journal, Sustainability, and the Boletín de Antropología, among others. He has two forthcoming books: Pedagogies for the Ecozoic (Cambridge University Press, co-author) and Law, Place and Plants in Amazonia: Sentient Legalities (Routledge Law, Justice, and Ecology book series).